The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-01
Weekly News Summary.



hundredth year.
AN effort is making to secure national
bank for Ludlow.
W. TRACY SMITH has been appointed health
officer of st. Adams.
A HAu-sToRM did much damage in Proc
torsville last Thursday.
WoRKMEN excavating cellar in Brattle-
boro found human skeleton.
ST. JoHNsDURy people are talking about
the establishment of a public hospital
II. A. RAY of Burlington has just shipped
two trotting-carts to Valparaiso, Chill.
THE annual meeting of the Masonic grand
bodies of Vermont will commence June IL.
THE st. Adams baseball club defeated
the Dartmouth club Monday, eighteen to SIX.
Hon. FREDERICK BILLINGS and family
have arrived in Woodstock for the summer.
Hon. WILLIAM NJ. EvARTs has been at his
summer residence in Windsor during the
past week.
SENATOR AND Mrs. MORRILL, were in Brat
tleboro last week on their way to their home
in STAFFORD.
THE Vermont Congregational State Con-
vention will be held at Swanton the second
week in June.
THE Free Press reports that the steamer
Reindeer " will be used this season only
for excursion work.
WILLIAM BAILEY of South Strafford while
intoxicated pounded his wife so that she
died in a few hours.
A BOY only thirteen years old was ar
rested in Winooski Saturday in an advanced
stage of intoxication.
Ex-GovERNoR HoLBRooK is credited with
having the best garden in Brattleboro, as
result of his own labor.
CHARLES GALE, aged twenty-three,
brakeman, was struck by bridge at West
Hartford. He may recover.
FRED SHoRoN of st. Adams fell distance
of twelve feet with scaffold and received
injuries resulting in paralysis.
THE st. Adams baseball club defeated
the Rutland club again Saturday, at st.
Adams, by a score of twenty-five to six.
GENERAL EDWARD II. RIPLEY of Mendon
has gone ON business trip to South
America, for an absence of several months.
LIGHTNING struck William Cloughs barn
at Putney Thursday evening and killed his
horse, though the building was slightly
damaged
THE Burlington & Lamoille road will, on
and after June /, charge fifteen cents excess
over local tariff rates for all fares paid on
the trains.
A, w. TEwKsBURY of West Randolph
who was badly hurt in the Hartford disas-
ter, has gone to the Massachusetts general
hospital for treatment.
GOVERNOR ORMsBEE has appointed Hon.
Charles p. Marsh of Woodstock assistant
Judge of the Windsor county court in place
of Judge Gay, deceased.
AT a meeting of the Boston & Lowell
railroad stockholders the lease of the Con-
necticut and Passumpsic rivers railroad was
ratified by large majority
CHARLES RoLLo who has acted as depot
master at St. Adams for the past twelve
and is succeeded by Ed. Nash.
THE projectors of the proposed anti-co-
ercion meeting in Rutland have abandoned
the idea, on account of the difficulty about
obtaining prominent men to speak
JULIA KERRIGAN, arrested in New York
the 18th ult, on the charge of infanticide at
Windsor, has been pronounced insane and
is at the asylum on Blackwell's Island.
R. V. DE VAUDEVILLE of Montreal who
has been employed in the dining-room OF
the Hotel Burlington for about two weeks
was killed by the cars near Pittsford last
week.
THERE are at present four deputy-col-
lectors in the Vermont district. A. Brown
at Burlington, A. j. Sibley at Montpelier
E. X. Reardon at Rutland and James Lillis
at Brattleboro.
THE First Universalist parish at Brattle
boro has unanimously voted to call Rev. T
Blocker street church in New York at a
salary not to exceed 81 800
Hon. DoRMAN B. EATON, LID, of New
York city has accepted an invitation to de
liver the Grafton before the Phi Beta Kappa
Society of the University of Vermont at the
approaching commencement, June %.
THE Athletic Park, Burlington, was dedi
Gated with match game of ball last weel
between the st. Adams and University OF
Vermont mines, which resulted in a victory
for the visiting team, by a score of sixteeI
to two.
MRS. DANIEL MILLER of ST. Adams, wht
was so badly burned short time ago, dice
last Thursday Her back was burned Sc
deeply as to affect her internally, rendering
recovery impossible. She leaves two young
children.
DR.. n. +. HAMILTON of Richford, Will,
riding in a carriage was run into by train
and in attempting to jump from the Wagon
to save himself from danger his leg wa
broken so badly that amputatiOn may b.
necessary.
Mr.. T. III. HANLEy of st. Adams, who fo
several years has been clerk in the genera
passenger department of the Central Yer
mont, as well as assistant to Ticket Agen
Appleton at the depot, goes to the Boston
office of the road as assistant ticket agent.
On alumni day at Middlebury College
June %, there will be an address by Georg
E. Plumb, LIB, of Chicago, class of 81
and poem by Walter +. Howard, A. M
of Fairhaven, VT, class of II. The literar,
exercises will be succeeded by dinner an'
social reunion.
The compositOrs of the Rutland Herdl
struck last week Wednesday because of tn
refusal of the managers to raise wages. TIL
Herald says the strike is the result of a con
spiracy dating some time back. They will
not yield to the demand under any con
dition. The work on the paper is no
seriously affected.
comes from observer in Mortified
Mass, who says that careful examinatio
of the New England meteorological society
show that the snowfall of New Engan
the past winter was heaviest at STAFFORD VT
900 inches; at Jacksonville, VT, it wa
1852 inches; at Rowe, Mass, 1862 inches, an
at Marlboro, VT, 1913 inches.
The building committee of the Ben ninl
ton Battle Monument association have il
the contract for the building of the found;
tons and monument three hundred fe,
high to w. III. Ward Of Lowell, Mass. 1t
understood that the work is to be ready fC
the laying of the cornerstone by the 10th
August, the anniversary of the battle, an
that the structure is to be completed in thre
years. The contract price is about $500
This leaves a margin of the appropriation
for incidental expenses.
In General.
A REVOLUTION has broken out in Crete.
EARTHQUAKE shocks have been felt
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